camube

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Something I really like about DeLucas and it is not common around other VNs is the 'action scenes'.

- The treason of Trino in Lucania, the Fazio warehouse shootout, the invasion at Ombra's hideout and the incursion at the Bonanzos are one of the best ways to show how to make a VN looks more dynamic. This is one of the most things I missed after all the time without update. Of course, probably there are a lot more games with this, but the timing on DeLucas is almost perfect, really looks like some anime action fom 80's/90's.

Even not being a platform any good for animations (only shortcuts), if the dev has the "Mojo", he can make on Ren'py all those static images look like a great action scene, more like a stop-motion. The only other game I remenber was similar on that matter was Above the Clouds (probably dead project at this point, unfortunately).

I still hope Hopes get back on track soon and deliver new releases.
the music too. the sound is great
 

Krytax123

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lol you're really jumping to conclusions there.
By Hopes' explanation in his Patreon & his DM to me, he had things which really impacted him IRL & his mental health & had to take total break from internet and social media overall.
Now, I'm not here to argue with anyone that the way he went about it was the best (it really wasn't, there's no sugarcoating it).
But I'm also not gonna be wearing that spectacles of suspicion of when he started or not working on the game.

All that would be literally conjecture and is just pointless even giving it a thought.

Having said that, while I won't say anything about "communication was bad because no development was happening", I can say with certainty you are incorrect with "communication is bad because no development is happening"
Part of that answer is addressed in the next quoted part further down, but the other part of the answer?
He's aware of the state f95zone thread is in (I mean, the state of the thread was a literal dumpster fire when this site gave it an abandoned tag, with trolls coming out of woodwork lol).

So he's just gonna lay low until people cool their heads (and given the state the thread is still in, I'd say it's for the best).
It's a conscious decision, not because there's no development.



Well, that's the thing.
He did show me snippets of what he has been working on (I thought it was kinda implied when I said "am aware of certain things which I will not disclose" I guess not :HideThePain: ).

And before you or anyone say "I won't believe you until you show proof" etc etc, no I won't be showing what he showed me here.
New content sneak peeks that I showed here before, all were done after getting permission from Hopes.
He requested to me this time to not reveal here any sneak peeks he may show me in our DMs, & of course I'm not gonna break that trust.
If that makes people think "Oh this dude isn't showing actual proof to back it up" with a scoff then it is what it is.
Nothing will change my mind about this.
Haha, how is that jumping to conclusions if the overdue development is a fact potrayed by no updates even more as Hopes stated himself that he was not working (appropriatly) at it.

Of course youre not wearing spectacles of suspicion if you have a good relationship too him, it makes you more sympathetic to him which is fine but not the same for every other customer he has.

And i can understand that he has no ambition to show himself here, i wouldnt have any interest in this pit of snakes being in his position either but its not like its any different on his patreon.

The only things which changed is that he now made one (!) very disappointing patreon post right after the avn got abandoned here (maybe coincidence but looks bad anyway) and now seemingly stopped ignoring you.

Thats not like we suddenly have a great outcome again, its maybe suckinga bit less than no communication at all but its barely a difference lol

Nah, i believe you, that he showed you something and i dont expect you to show the stuff he showed you in private. But lets be honest it would be really laughable if he indeed had NOTHING to show since the last update but would still be saying hes working at it.

Whatever, im just annoyed about this because i really liked the story, we will see if there comes more
 
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